“There’s just one, itty-bitty little problem. ODOT’s latest drawing of the cap proposal shows a highway off-ramp at Carnegie Avenue slicing right across the southern edge of the area where the future cap would touch ground on the south side of the highway.
According to Craig Hebebrand, ODOT’s project manager for the Inner Belt, the gap created by the ramp would be 26 feet wide and 25 feet at the deepest, although it would gradually rise as it runs west to east until it reaches grade at the Carnegie intersection.
In other words, if you can picture it, the ramp, advocated tenaciously by Midtown Cleveland Inc. and the Greater Cleveland Partnership, would render the cap totally pointless. The drawing, released by ODOT earlier this week, is positively surreal…” (go to article)
May 12, 2008 at 3:02 pm
the. scariest. thing. i. have. ever. seen.
absolutely speechless.
May 13, 2008 at 6:10 pm
It seems that what we are faced with here is the specialist, in this case the traffic engineer, who can only focus upon one aspect of a problem without considering the larger implications of his actions. ODOT and the traffic engineer, wield far too much power for their narrow focus. For them unimpeded movement from point A to B is the end in mind rather than a means for some arger goal. Until they are made to submit to issues larger than transportation, and in particular to issues revolving around the automobile, cities like Cleveland will suffer the consequences.